How to upgrade remote server
 

Hi all, I have a couple of Linodes that I'll eventually need to upgrade to 14.1. What's the best method? The process in UPGRADE.TXT seems to require the packages to be available locally.. when I upgraded my laptop, I just mounted the DVD. How can I do the same on a remote server, without transferring the entire file tree beforehand?

I can think of a few options (use sshfs, or download the iso on the server then mount it). What's the best method?

Thanks!

assuming fedora, you should be able to just run fedup from the terminal to initiate the upgrade.

This is in the Slackware forum, so no I'm not running Fedora ;)

sorry. i clicked on it from lqspy and forgot to check the subforum it was listed in. i have mounted dvd's in my desktop upstairs and pointed my xbmc box to play the video from an sshfs mount (but that is kinda' hacky). it was always more consistant for me to scp the iso to the xbmc machine.

I'd create a new disk image, download the packages to that image, and share that image among your Linodes to do your install.

You should be able to make it look like a shared USB drive.

Slackpkg should do the job. Otherwise I wrote this explaining how I upgraded from 13.37 to 14.0. You could use a similar method to upgrade 14.0 to 14.1. I have not done it yet myself but must get around to it at some point.

I did this couple times Upgrading via slackpkg

slackpkg does the job perfectly for me, but it's better to also track all new/removed packages for each Slackware release mentioned on the CHANGES_AND_HINTS.

It ended up being a lot easier to back up what I needed, and rebuild my linode with 14.1. See this thread for details.